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Table-Top Wargaming is basically just playing "toy soldiers" with rules.

I've always liked building models and playing with action figures (my Star Wars and G.I. Joe figures had way cooler custom made stuff than most of my friends), and like most gamers, I started my gaming career by playing D&D with my buddies back in Junior High School.

We often used miniatures to represent our characters on the map, and when I found out that there were rules out there specifically for miniatures, I was very intrigued. I continued playing role-playing games for many more years, and even did some gaming with models and toys of anime robots, but the game that really got me into minatures was "Space Hulk" from Games Workshop. After that, there was no turning back.

I tried playing WH40K a few times, but I just wasn't happy with the way it played, so I went back to Space Hulk, and decided to add more rules to it. I had previously tried to write role-playing games with my friends back in High School, and even wrote (and published - on a very small scale) a tactical game for anime mecha, but the additional rules I made for Space Hulk was basically the first true miniatures game that I ever wrote (even though it was just additional rules for an already existing game). After reading and playing miniature games from several different companies over several years, I decided that I just couldn't live with many of the rulesets "as is", so I went about writing my own, and I've been doing that sort of thing for about fifteen years.

I have finished converting all of my rulesets over to PDF format. However, to save on bandwidth, I have moved several of them (the ones for 25mm-30mm scale miniatures) over to my Geocities site (you can follow the link below to get there). My signature "mecha" rules are still hosted here, and you can download them by clicking on the links below. Enjoy


Follow this link to my 25mm-30mm rulesets...

Mobile Soldier In Action

Front Mission 3-D (rules)

Front Mission 3-D (resources)

Zoid Battle

New Cleric Spell List

Spellslinger Character Sheet

Mobile Soldier In Action

These rules were meant to be used with the Mobile Suit Gundam "Mobile Suit in Action" action figures, or with 1/144 scaled mobile suit models. The main focus of these rules is The One Year War era, and while they have been around for a few years now, they still seem to hold up.


Front Mission 3-D

Front Mission 3-D is a set of rules written for the Wanzer action figures produced by ARTFX/Kotobukiya. Since the original files were created using different software, the PDF downloads are broken into two parts; the file containing the actual rules, and the file containing all of the cards, control sheets and the reference sheet.


Zoid Battle

Zoid Battle is a hex-based game for the Zoids toys from Tomy/Hasbro, with a simple construction system so you can make up your own zoid's stats and weapons.

This is where I will host elements of my Incursion campaign setting (a near-future horror-adventure-survival setting).  Although it was written for the D6 system from West End Games, feel free to co-opt it into whatever set of rules you like.
 

Incursion Campaign Setting

Incursion Bestiary

D6 House Rules

D6 Errata

D6 FAQ

prototype_southern_mech.jpg

While not exactly related to table-top gaming, this drawing is a prototype sketch of a mech that I thought up for a non-collectible mecha card game that I'm working on (and no, I did NOT draw it; credit for that goes to Temjin QC). The game itself is basically done, I just need to get the artwork drawn up - unfortunately, I can't draw to save my life. If you can draw anime-style mecha or vehicles, or know someone who can, and would like to help out with this project, please drop me a line.